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Patent GB-2184326-A (GB)
Title: Surveillance system
Inventor: COHEN MOSHE
IPC: H04M11/04
Filed: 1986-12-04
Abstract: An auditory surveillance system comprising in combination an Inspection and Recording device (2), an Amplifier (3), a Recorder (4) all of which are connected to an Automatic Dialler and line control unit (5), which is connected to a smart terminal (1) to be used in the control-room, and a remote device comprising in combination a line control unit, a delay unit, an amplifier and microphone to be used in the place under surveillance. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2202578-A (GB)
Title: Friction stays and window assemblies incorporating same
Inventor: DOUGLAS JACK ERNEST
IPC: E05D15/32
Filed: 1987-03-25
Abstract: A window friction stay 14 for side hung windows comprises a pair of "U" Section mounting members 16 and 18 secured respectively to the sash 12 and to the fixed window frame, members 16,18 being interconnected by a pair of stay arms 20 and 22 pivotally connected at their ends by means of rivetted friction pivot joints 25. Each friction pivot joint 25 includes a rivet 27 having a shank 29 extending through aligned holes 42a,42b, in the mounting member and through holes 50a,50b, in friction elements 48a,46b, and through a hole 44 in the stay arm 20 or 22. The friction elements 48a,48b, are of a one-piece plastics moulding 46, and the pivot is stressed by the forcible clinching of the rivet 27. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2191971-A (GB)
Title: Powered hand tool, in particular a hammer drill and/or percussion hammer
Inventor: FALCHLE JORG
IPC: B25D11/12
Filed: 1987-05-27
Abstract: A hammer drill has an air-cushion percussion mechanism 13 which includes a piston 17, that is oscillated by motor (11) via an eccentric gear mechanism 12. The mechanism 12 has a radially projecting dog (32) (e.g. a ball) on the end of a pin (34) received in the piston 17 and a drive member (e.g. gear 26) which is rotationally driven about axis (30) running perpendicular to the longitudinal centre axis (21) of the piston (17). At a radial distance from the axis (30), drive member 26 bears a driving device (31) (e.g. a bore 38) engaging on the dog (32). The ball (36) is located in freely pivotable mariner in the bore 38. For length compensation, the ball (36) is axially displaceable in the bore (38), or the dog (32) is displaceable relative to the piston (17) in the radial direction. The drill is compact, inexpensive and has only a few, and in addition simple, components (Figure 1). The drive member may be a radial lever or a disc mounted on a rotatable spindle 29. The dog 32 may be designed as a spherical pivot bearing instead of as a ball. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2197343-A (GB)
Title: Operation of zinc-smelting blast furnaces
Inventor: GABB PHILIP JOHN
IPC: C22B19/08
Filed: 1987-10-30
Abstract: The efficiency of a zinc-smelting blast furnace wherein oxidic zinc or zinc/lead feed and carbonaceous reductant/fuel are fed in lump form to the top of the furnace shaft is improved by also feeding particulate oxidic material and fuel into tuyeres or lances which direct the material on or into the slag pool at the furnace bottom. This is preferably augmented by the use of oxygen-enriched blast through the tuyeres.
Patent GB-2212879-A (GB)
Title: Corner piece
Inventor: TOWNSEND JOHNATHAN HARRY
IPC: H02B1/01
Filed: 1987-11-25
Abstract: A corner piece (2) for connecting frame members (40) has a body of cubic configuration with three adjacent faces having resilient integral flanges for engagement within the frame members. Apertures are provided to abut bolt heads (42, 48), the arrangement being such that a bolt stem (46) of a bolt abutting one of the faces can pass over the top of the heads of the bolts abutting two of the other faces. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2208538-A (GB)
Title: Headlamp converters
Inventor: HARPER PAUL IVOR
IPC: F21V17/00
Filed: 1988-08-01
Abstract: Means for converting a headlamp designed for driving on one side of the road so that it becomes suitable for use on the other side comprise pairs of trapezias of translucent, flexible, adhesive backed plastics material, affixed to headlamps. The converters may be coloured amber or be refracting.
Patent GB-2249288-A (GB)
Title: Rack-and-pinion power assisted steering system
Inventor: ADAMS FEDERICK JOHN
IPC: B62D5/22
Filed: 1988-10-18
Abstract: A power assisted steering system of the rack and pinion kind has its pinion 6 angularly displaceable about a bearing 8 in response to reaction of the pinion on the rack 5 during the application of a steering input torque. The pinion 6 is displaceable angularly in the plane of the rack 5 to an extent permitted by displacement of a bearing 13 in an elongated seating 15. A pinion shaft extension 11 has extending therefrom a rod 18 which directly connects the pinion shaft to a spool 21 of a valve assembly 7 which controls fluid pressure for a ram that provides power assistance to displacement of the rack bar. The spool 21 has its axis 22 substantially parallel with the plane of the rack 5 and extending radially relative to the pinion axis 16. The rectilinear adjustment provided by displacement of the rod 18 in response to a steering input torque can serve to adjust an electrical switch for control of the power assistance means. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2226983-A (GB)
Title: Vehicle writing support
Inventor: MEADOWS IAN
IPC: B60N3/00
Filed: 1988-12-09
Abstract: A writing board 10 for use in a vehicle is attached by two hinges 12 to a frame 13. The frame is shaped to fit over and receive the top of a vehicle steering wheel. The board can be used out of the vehicle as a lecturn by placing the frame on a surface. The board has a low lodge 11 to prevent papers sliding off. The board may have clips to grip papers <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2215577-A (GB)
Title: Cigarette manufacture
Inventor: CAHILL MICHAEL JOHN
IPC: A24C5/60
Filed: 1989-02-09
Abstract: Apparatus for applying adhesive foam or other liquid-based ingredients to the ends of cigarettes comprises a source of suction, means for carrying and moving a series of flexible tubular sealing members 50 each of which is aligned with a respective cigarette 10 in a treatment station, and means for moving each sealing member into engagement with a respective cigarette and for connecting each sealing member to the source of suction, characterised in that each sealing member is so shaped that an end portion 54 thereof can engage around the end portion of the corresponding cigarette, and that suction transmitted through the sealing member causes the end portion of the sealing member to contract and thus grip the cigarette. A pressure air source may also be included to expand each sealing member as it moves over the end of the corresponding cigarette. The cigarettes can be located entirely within flutes in a drum associated with a stationary cover (21) so that substantially the entire periphery of each cigarette is surrounded by suction (Figs 1 & 2). The cigarettes can be located within flutes having one or more relatively deep portions forming suction chambers and being terminated at portions spaced along the flute by walls (22, 23) having edges matching the radius of the cigarettes (Fig 1). The ends of the treated cigarettes can be dried by exposure to radiation with air used for cooling the radiation device flowing towards the cigarette ends (Fig 7). <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2217694-A (GB)
Title: Container with plastics lid
Inventor: MATTHEWS ARNOLD
IPC: B65D51/20
Filed: 1989-04-24
Abstract: A container (1) comprises a cylindrical wall (2) at the top of which is secured a metal ring (3) to define a mouth (4) at the top of a container. The ring includes a radially inward projection (9) for cooperation with a plastics lid (5) to form a snap- fit, and terminates at or below the level of the lower surface (17) of the lid. In the preferred embodiment a tamper evident member (15) secured to the ring in a manner which will not be damaged by insertion of the lid and the tamper evident member comprises a paperboard disc detained between the lower face (18) of a joggle (13) and the free edge (15) of the ring. The tamper evident member preferably incorporates a weakened zone which may be removed by finger pressure to form an aperture for pouring the contents, or to facilitate removal of the member. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2222840-A (GB)
Title: Roofs
Inventor: HYLAND PETER BERNARD
IPC: E04B7/00
Filed: 1989-09-06
Abstract: A prefabricated roof is made of a number of pieces for lightness in installation, the pieces being trays connected together with engaged ribs and grooves in edge flanges. These ribs and grooves ensure alignment and help in providing weather tight sealing. Insulation 54 may be provided in the trays and a bead of sealant 42 may be provided between a rib and groove. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2227318-A (GB)
Title: A coriolis-effect mass flow sensor
Inventor: DAMES ANDREW NICHOLAS
IPC: G01F1/78
Filed: 1989-12-18
Abstract: A coriolis-type mass flow sensor (10) suitable for aerospace use comprises a turning fork (14) which is immersed in the fluid whose mass flow is to be sensed, such that its vanes extend across (ie perpendicular to) the direction of flow of the fluid. The whole tuning fork is elongated in the direction of flow of the fluid, so that the fluid flows over (and between) the vanes: typically, the fork may be up to 15 cm long in the direction of flow. The vanes are excited to vibrate perpendicularly to the direction of flow of the fluid by several piezoelectric drive devices held under compression in, and distributed symmetrically about the midlength of, the yoke (12) from which the vanes project, while the vibrations are sensed by respective piezoelectric pickup devices within each end of the yoke. The phase difference between the vibrations sensed by the two pickup devices is a function of the mass flow of the fluid. In an alternative form, the sensor has two pairs of vanes symmetrically distributed around the yoke as a kind of double tuning fork, while in another alternative form, the vanes are formed integrally with, and project into, a short section of cylindrical pipe.
Patent GB-2393941-A (GB)
Title: Vectorable variable area nozzle
Inventor: JOYCE NICHOLAS JAMES
IPC: F02K1/00
Filed: 1990-01-26
Abstract: A vectorable variable area nozzle is formed by a pair of parallel sidewalls 15, a pair of opposed clamshell elements 16 arranged between the sidewalls and each able to rotate about an axis 22 perpendicular to the sidewalls and a pair of flaps 17 each pivotally linked to the downstream end of one of the clamshell elements. The elements 16 form a convergent section of the nozzle, and the flaps 17a divergent section. In use the thrust produced by the nozzle can be vectored by rotating the two clamshell elements about their respective axes and/or by rotating the flaps 17 about their axes 23 relative to the elements.
Patent GB-2242393-A (GB)
Title: Bag holding and sealing unit
Inventor: LAMBERT JOHN MICHAEL
IPC: B65B67/12
Filed: 1990-03-30
Abstract: A holding and sealing unit comprises a fixed member (11) for mounting on a wall and a movable member (12) pivotably connected to the fixed member. The members are provided with hooks (19, 21) for releasably retaining the side walls of a plastics material bag. The movable member (12) is movable between a closed rest setting in which a retained bag is kept closed, an open rest setting in which the bag id held open, and a transient setting in which sealing of the filled bag is carried out. Sealing is performed by a heat sealing element (24), against which the bag walls are urged by a rubber strip (23) when the movable member (12) is pressed towards the fixed member (11) and thus into the transient setting. Switching means respond to the transient setting to actuate the sealing element (24) for a preset time.
Patent GB-2238140-A (GB)
Title: Limp-home control of fuel injection circuit
Inventor: BURCKHARDT CHRISTOPH
IPC: F02M59/38
Filed: 1990-10-09
Abstract: A low-pressure fuel circuit for an air-compressing fuel-injected internal combustion engine, comprises a distributor-type injection pump 14 with a rotating and axially displaceable distributor element 13 and with radially movable, fuel delivery pump plungers 16 in the distributor element, an electronic control device 23, which determines the injection quantity required, for controlling two solenoid valves 5, 6, determining the fuel passage for pressure control of the distributor element 13 and is characterised by an electronic auxiliary control device 26 for controlling the upstream solenoid valve 5, in order to make possible limp-home operation in the event of failure of the control device 23. The auxiliary device 26 receives signals only from a load sensor such as a potentiometer attached to the accelerator pedal. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2251391-A (GB)
Title: Smoke generation in steam models
Inventor: COOPER THOMAS VALE
IPC: A63H19/14
Filed: 1990-12-11
Abstract: A smoky exhaust is caused to be emitted from a steam model by utilising pressurised steam to draw a potentially smoke-producing medium through a heating duct leading to a smoke outlet from the model. The medium becomes heated sufficiently within the duct to cause it to generate smoke which becomes exhausted with the steam through the smoke outlet. In a steam locomotive the blast from a steam motor 40 is directed into a heating duct 18 which extends through a boiler flue 14. Oil from a tank 26 is introduced into the blast, so as to be drawn through the duct, and becomes heated sufficiently in passage through the duct to produce a smoky exhaust. An outlet end of the duct bears a diffusion cap 20 within a chimney 16 which serves to collect condensate and unburnt oil. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2243033-A (GB)
Title: Electric connector
Inventor: BROWNELL KENNETH WILFORD
IPC: H01R13/658
Filed: 1991-02-21
Abstract: A miniature electric connector, such as a cord-mounted data jack, comprises at least two plastics mouldings (2-4) which snap fit together. One (3) is insulating, and supports at least one contact. The second (2 or 4) is a screening part, and is metallised all over. The metallised part is spaced from the contact(s) when assembled. Preferably there are two metallised screening pants (2, 4) which snap fit with each other and trap the insulating part (3) between them. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2258065-A (GB)
Title: Television programme and advertising data analysis
Inventor: STRACHAN GEORGE
IPC: H04N7/16
Filed: 1991-07-26
Abstract: A communications analysing apparatus (1) is disclosed. A booking processor (2) is connected to a current advertisement database (6) and to a programme ratings database (10). Other databases include a campaign database (14) and a bookings database (16). Sequential accesses to these databases enables efficient generation of meaningful reports with little risk of data degradation. Further, the current advertisement data, the programme ratings database and the rates database (12) are also connected to a campaign monitoring processor 30 for generating of analysis reports and the programme ratings database and universal and profile databases are connected to a programme monitoring processor for generation of programme analysis reports. The manner in which the apparatus (1) is constructed allows efficient processing without degradation of data and versatility in the range of reports which may be generated. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2248111-A (GB)
Title: A unit for a measuring or other device
Inventor: JONES BARBARA LYNN
IPC: G01D21/00
Filed: 1991-08-16
Abstract: A unit which is useful in a measuring device such as a vibration rod transducer. The unit comprises supported diamond layer or layers 12 having an unsupported bridging diamond strip 18 which is integrally formed with the supported diamond layer(s). The supported diamond layers may form part of a closed configuration such as a circle, square, rectangle or triangle. The diamond is preferably CVD diamond.   <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2246789-A (GB)
Title: Chromium-based nitrified baked material and method of obtaining it
Inventor: BRAVERMAN BORIS SHULAVICH
IPC: C01B21/06
Filed: 1991-10-18
Abstract: The material, characterized by a porosity of 30-60 %, comprises chromium nitride and seminitride at a weight ratio of 1:0.01-0.8 and 17-25 wt.% of nitrogen. The method provides for nitrification of a chromium-containing component in powder form in nitrogen at a pressure of 1-16 MPa, by means of layer-by-layer burning of that component to obtain chromium seminitride, and maintaining it at a temperature of 1190-800  DEG C, wherein a chromium-containing component is used with a chromium content of 65.0-99.5 % by weight.
Patent GB-914831-A (GB)
IPC: B66C1/48
Abstract: 914,831. Clamps for lifting sheets. RENFROE, R. L. Nov. 26, 1959 [Aug. 12, 1958], No. 40131/59. Class 78 (4). A clamp for lifting sheets has one jaw 24 (Fig. 2) connected by a pin-and-slot connection to a lever 40 operated by a suspension link 46, while the upper jaw 52 can be adjustably slid towards and away from the first jaw. In the form shown the second jaw 52 has grooves 60 (Fig. 6) which slide on tenons 58 on a nut 56 engaged with a bolt 68 (Fig. 2) by which the jaw 54 may be held in the locked position. Adjustment of the jaw 54 is by a nut 80 working on a bolt 78 which rotates in a carrier 86 mounted on trunnion bosses 92 (Fig. 4) carried by studs 88 threaded into the outer plates 12, 14 forming the body of the device. The body may be an integral casting or may be built up. In the form shown, the connection between the lever 40 and jaw 24 is by a pin 38 on the lever engaging a slot in the jaw, but the pin may be alternatively carried by the jaw to engage a slot in the lever.
Patent GB-2252250-A (GB)
Title: Apparatus for obtaining an artificial erection
Inventor: COX ALLAN JOHN
IPC: A61F5/41
Filed: 1992-02-03
Abstract: The apparatus includes a generally tubular body 2 partially defining a vacuum chamber 3 for accommodating the distended penis, said body being open at one end 4 to receive the penis and having a peripheral rim 5 adjacent the opening to seal the vacuum chamber around the penis, the other end of the body being substantially closed and including manually operable pump means 10 for selectively and progressively evacuating said vacuum chamber such that, in use, the resultant differential pressure causes blood to flow into the penis and induce an artificial erection. The pump may comprise a cylinder 15, a manually reciprocable piston 16 and a cooperating pair of pressure actuable one-way flap valves (17, 18), the pressure being subsequently relieved by means of a relief valve assembly. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2252564-A (GB)
Title: Bearings
Inventor: TANAKA TADASHI
IPC: C22C21/00
Filed: 1992-02-10
Abstract: A bearing material suitable for large internal combustion engines is disclosed which has either a three-layered structure consisting of a steel backing metal 1, an aluminium or aluminium alloy adhesive layer 2 and a bearing alloy layer 3, or a four-layered structure having a surface layer 4 in addition to the three layers which is lead, tin or an alloy thereof. The bearing alloy layer comprises from 35 to 65% by weight tin, 0.5 to 10% by weight bismuth, 0.1 to 1.5% by weight copper, and optionally 5% by weight or less of one or more of the elements manganese, nickel, silicon, silver, magnesium, antimony and/or zinc, the balance being aluminium and any incidental impurities. Such bearing materials may possess superior anti-seizure properties and display a high fatigue resistance. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2265949-A (GB)
Title: Hydrodynamic bearing having cotrollable parts.
Inventor: GARVEY SEAMUS
IPC: F16C33/10
Filed: 1992-04-02
Abstract: An active hydrodynamic bearing has a body 11 which accommodates three or more moveable pads 18 to support oil- films which in turn support the shaft. Each of the pads is supported on two or more actuators (20, fig. 3) which enables the radial and angular position of the pad to be controlled from outside the bearing. The pads have oil-ducts (19, Fig. 3) in them enabling lubricant to be fed to the working surface. The pipe 14 carrying lubricating oil for each pad and the cables or tubes 15 carrying the signals to the actuators for each pad pass through a hole (13, Fig. 1) in the bearing body. When the shaft is supported on oil-films between the pads and the shaft itself, the instantaneous force acting on the shaft from each of the oil- films can be controlled directly by moving the pads radially inward or outward with respect to the shaft centerline. The angular position of the pads can be used to influence the effective stiffness and damping characteristics of the bearing. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2414895-A (GB)
Title: I.F.F. system
Inventor: WISBEY PHILIP HENRY
IPC: F42C15/44
Filed: 1992-05-12
Abstract: An I.F.F. (Identify Friend or Foe) system comprises a transceiver mounted upon a weapons munition for transmitting an interrogating signal. A transponder to be associated with a friendly possible target is operative upon receipt of the interrogating signal to modulate and reflect or return that signal back to the munition with information indicative of the friendly status of the target, the munition being operative to disarm and divert upon receipt thereof. The transceiver may employ a laser or UHF upread spectrum radio and frequently changing interrogation and response codes, and may be on a missile arranged to follow a laser designator/interrogation beam from a launch platform and arranged to respond to status signals from a transponder responsive to the laser. The transponder may be located on a vehicle or building and be arranged to be disabled a predetermined time after a person with a further transponder leaves. The munition may carry a transponder to aid its recovery.
Patent GB-2258349-A (GB)
Title: Conductive leaf springs in a linear motor.
Inventor: WATANABE NORIHISA
IPC: F25B9/14
Filed: 1992-06-11
Abstract: In the gas cycle engine for a refrigerator, a thermodynamic gas cycle is performed by using a moving member (2 and 3) disposed in a cylinder (1), supported by leaf springs so as to be movable in the axial direction of the cylinder and driven by a linear motor (9, 12 and 13), the leaf springs (4a and 4b) being made of an electrical conductor used also as current leads for supplying a current to the linear motor. Various shapes of leaf spring are disclosed. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2270667-A (GB)
Title: Packaging compressed paper rolls
Inventor: GROWCOTT ROGER
IPC: B65H75/10
Filed: 1992-09-22
Abstract: A package comprises a plurality of paper rolls (10) which are deformed so that their formerly circular cross-section is deformed towards a rectangular or oval shape, and a cover wrapped around the deformed rolls to hold them in the deformed condition. The packaged is formed by arranging the rolls in columns and rows and applying pressure from two opposite sides at right angles to the axes of the rolls to deform the rolls, by means of pressure plates (12, 20) or pressure rollers. Cores of the rolls may be formed from natural or synthetic rubber or plastics material such as formed or expanded plastics. <IMAGE>
Patent GB-2261127-A (GB)
Title: Electric field therapy apparatus
Inventor: OGAWA YUKIO
IPC: A61N1/10
Filed: 1992-10-21
Abstract: An electric field therapy apparatus comprises an overload detecting circuit 21 which compares (COMP) a voltage VD dependent on the output current with a reference VR dependent on the supply voltage. The result drives an indicator (LED) and/or a relay Ry2. possibly via a time delay 22. <IMAGE>